Q

Schedule for Wednesday August 13

It's Q the Summer! Stephen Quinn is your guest host this week. Jian returns with a new season of Q on Sept 1. Please note that all schedules are subject to last-minute changes. Check back for updates. Is it ethical to turn your mental illness into a spectacle? Performance artist Marni Kotak tells Stephen about going off her anti-psychotic and...
It's Q the Summer! Stephen Quinn is your guest host this week. Jian returns with a new season of Q on Sept 1. Please note that all schedules are subject to last-minute changes. Check back for updates.

  • Is it ethical to turn your mental illness into a spectacle? Performance artist Marni Kotak tells Stephen about going off her anti-psychotic and anti-depression prescription medication for her controversial new piece "Mad Meds" -- in which she tackles her struggles with mental illness and the U.S. medical system, while weaning herself off her meds on display inside a Brooklyn gallery. [FULL POST]

  • Writer Roxane Gay talks to Stephen Quinn about why she considers herself to be a bad feminist, and why she thinks that it's important for feminists not to seek perfection. [FULL POST]

  • From the Best of Q:Jian's interview with Jack Johnson - the singer-songwriter (and former surfer from Hawaii) has made the top of the Billboard album charts for the fourth consecutive time...with his latest melodic, dreamy pop 'From Here to Now to You'. He performs and talks to Jian in studio Q [FULL POST]